Is there any solution to restore an entire website of an expired domain for free ?

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itsMeScofield

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Hi. I just bought an expired domain and want to restore the website to its original structure. I want to retain the URL structure of the website so that all its backlinks remains relevant.
I saw an option to download the whole website in "waybackmachinedownloader" but it takes around 15 bucks per domain. Is there any option to restore the entire website for an expired domain for free ?
Any methods would be highly appreciated.
Thanks.

 

ReverseAndCode

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• Nov 23, 2020

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You could try it manually by using the Google cache or archive.org.

 

hvy

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Other than using Google Cache or Archive.org, I wouldn't see a possible way to do this. Unless the domain is perhaps attached to the hosting, but even then still not sure.

 

ruapa

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well, love the machine than that, even the cache is better

 

RayChand

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Any scraper can do it if you don't want the theme files

 

bartosimpsonio

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Yes this is a fairly common thing. If you post to want to hire section I know some folks here on BHW used to do it.

 

blueygg

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You can try this:

or this:

or another way:
https://archivarix.com/en/

 

Gogol

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HTTrack might do it. If you have some python/php knowledge, it should be fairly easy to do as well.

 

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Craigenstein

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this is great. definitely going to use it. thank you

 

itz_styx

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there are free tools to scrape data from waybackmachine, just have a look.
or try httrack like gogol suggested, just not sure if it works well with archive.org. i've only tried it with live websites.

 

PBN Systems

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HTTrack doesn't work well for archive sites. If you want to do it for free then there's a ruby setup on github that works beautifully.

 

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shaymiller

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• Dec 26, 2020

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itsMeScofield said:

Hi. I just bought an expired domain and want to restore the website to its original structure. I want to retain the URL structure of the website so that all its backlinks remains relevant.
I saw an option to download the whole website in "waybackmachinedownloader" but it takes around 15 bucks per domain. Is there any option to restore the entire website for an expired domain for free ?
Any methods would be highly appreciated.
Thanks.

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$15 is not a bad deal. If you have job, you waste 1 hr doing backup, thats lost of $15-20 too. just pay that

 

Cloud1

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WaybackMan.

 

GridPanel

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I use this: https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader

If you install Docker on your laptop and follow the Docker steps, it's like running a virtual machine that will download the code and run it on your machine.

 

vincegoodman

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It can be done using httrack